Jaroslaw Anders (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300111675
- eISBN:
- 9780300155310
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300111675.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter describes the life and works of Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz. Born in 1911, Milosz had seen it all: genocidal wars, revolutions, whole countries violently erased or slowly fading from the ...
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This chapter describes the life and works of Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz. Born in 1911, Milosz had seen it all: genocidal wars, revolutions, whole countries violently erased or slowly fading from the map, and the rise and ebb of ideologies, philosophies, religions. His writing, especially his poetry, may be viewed as an attempt to reclaim the innocent ability to wonder and trust. One of the best examples is his early cycle of short poems “The World,” written during the war, which recreated the secure and radiant world of a child.Less
This chapter describes the life and works of Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz. Born in 1911, Milosz had seen it all: genocidal wars, revolutions, whole countries violently erased or slowly fading from the map, and the rise and ebb of ideologies, philosophies, religions. His writing, especially his poetry, may be viewed as an attempt to reclaim the innocent ability to wonder and trust. One of the best examples is his early cycle of short poems “The World,” written during the war, which recreated the secure and radiant world of a child.
Jaroslaw Anders (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300111675
- eISBN:
- 9780300155310
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300111675.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter describes the life and works of Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert. Herbert is credited with almost singlehandedly introducing a whole new poetic idiom and changing the literary sensibility of ...
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This chapter describes the life and works of Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert. Herbert is credited with almost singlehandedly introducing a whole new poetic idiom and changing the literary sensibility of Polish readers who matured in the turbulent sixties and seventies. It was for this younger group of readers, spared the experience of World War II and the worst excesses of Stalinism, that Herbert's writing became “a prayer of the generation.”Less
This chapter describes the life and works of Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert. Herbert is credited with almost singlehandedly introducing a whole new poetic idiom and changing the literary sensibility of Polish readers who matured in the turbulent sixties and seventies. It was for this younger group of readers, spared the experience of World War II and the worst excesses of Stalinism, that Herbert's writing became “a prayer of the generation.”
Jaroslaw Anders (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300111675
- eISBN:
- 9780300155310
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300111675.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter describes the life and works of Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996. With a literary career spanning more than fifty years, she ...
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This chapter describes the life and works of Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996. With a literary career spanning more than fifty years, she acknowledges only some two hundred of her poems collected in several slender volumes. Her body of work displays unusual diversity and polychromy, and defies all the usual terms (classicist, linguistic, moralist) used to classify Polish writers of her generation. She practices isolation both in her writing and in her life, avoiding autobiography and remaining intensely private.Less
This chapter describes the life and works of Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996. With a literary career spanning more than fifty years, she acknowledges only some two hundred of her poems collected in several slender volumes. Her body of work displays unusual diversity and polychromy, and defies all the usual terms (classicist, linguistic, moralist) used to classify Polish writers of her generation. She practices isolation both in her writing and in her life, avoiding autobiography and remaining intensely private.
